HC orders CBI probe into kidnapping of Badaun boy

The Allahabad High Court has ordered a CBI inquiry into the abduction of a boy from Badaun district, who has been missing for nearly two years and whose mother has claimed that the alleged kidnapper was not being arrested as his close relatives were employed with Uttar Pradesh police.
A division bench, comprising Justice Shashi Kant Gupta and Justice Vijay Lakshmi, passed the order yesterday on the petition of Satyawati, the mother of the kidnapped boy, and directed CBI to submit its progress report by the next date of hearing on February 24.
The court noted that the petitioner, whose son has been missing since the year 2014, was an "illiterate lady" and "under apprehension that she will not get justice from the state police which has failed to take any effective step for tracing boy."

"Justice should not only be done but it must be seen to have been done," the court remarked, adding that a CBI inquiry was necessary "to instil confidence of the general public in the justice delivery system" and to ensure that the investigation took place "in an impartial manner."
The petitioner had alleged that although a case has been lodged at Islamnagar police station of Badaun, the arrest of Manphool Singh - who is named as the main accused in the FIR - has not yet been arrested as his son was an inspector while a number of other close relatives were officers of Deputy SP, Additional SP and SP rank.